It doesn't take long to understand how children are so unimportant in Pakistani society

It doesn't take long to understand how children are so unimportant in Pakistani society unless they are yours. Pakistanis have no discomfort, no moral outrage and certainly no embarrassment at barefoot tiny children begging on streets, children begging in marketplaces, children's labour in shops and businesses,  children's labour as domestic servants, and the worst for me, children's labour to care for privileged folks' children. 

In this sense, it is definitely point for reflection , asking oneself why would you perform moral outrage, copy cat online political protest, for the sake of Palestinian children and, be completely fine with the state of Pakistani children who are clearly tiered, classified according to nation and caste and class. 

Pakistanis are definitely OK with 26 million children being out of school. They aren't embarrassed about it. They aren't embarrassed that children work as domestic servants and beg on the streets. 

For many Pakistanis , especially liberal Pakistanis, their political stances aren't secular and principled. Their political stances are deeply rooted in the communal politics that created Pakistanis. They aren't really anti imperial or anti capitalist. 

I've been thinking about comfort and shame and embarrassment recently. 

I ground my ideas in politics and, concepts of secularism, class, empire, colonialism, structures, etc. We frame our ideas in context, in history, etc. One also has natural moral outrage. One believes one has a conscience. That poverty and inequality and suffering are fundamentally wrong. Amateurish thought process usually tries to explain away poverty by individual responsibility on the poor themselves. That if only you worked harder, you wouldn't be poor. And, that the poor are also lazy, cheats, and thieves. That if only they practiced family planning. 

I also really get embarrassed that we live in such an unequal society. How is not possible to be embarrassed at the mind blowing inequality that is so visible all around us. How can you have a stable and moral society with inequality ? 

Coming back to children, children aren't important even in families in terms of having individual rights, being seen as autonomous beings, and, being equal decision. makers. They are had for the sake of having them and, are spoiled in privileged families. I've been observing that regardless of class, though, they are all being reared by screens and not parents. I've noticed that boys are being spoiled by mothers , allowed to hit their sisters, and, their little egos are being absurdly massaged and allowed to overgrow.